3D Scanning in Pleasanton, CA

Most of Pleasanton's commercial scanning work is in Hacienda. The business park covers about 900 acres next to the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station. It was approved in 1982 and ratified by Pleasanton voters in 1983, and it was planned as office space that would cost less than Silicon Valley or San Francisco. More than forty years on, its multi-story office buildings and company headquarters turn over and get re-planned for new tenants. Each of those projects starts the same way: the design team needs the cores, shafts, columns, ceiling heights, and above-ceiling conditions as they are now, not as a previous tenant's fit-out drawings show them. A scan of an occupied floor collects all of that in one visit, working around the tenants rather than displacing them.

Downtown is a different job. Pleasanton incorporated in 1894, and because its historic downtown was preserved, the city still has buildings in architectural styles going back to the mid-19th century. Storefront rehabilitations, additions, and seismic or accessibility upgrades on those buildings need facades, floor levels, and framing recorded accurately, including walls that lean and floors that have settled. The scan captures that without touching historic material. South of downtown, the Alameda County Fairgrounds is a 270-acre facility that has hosted the county fair since 1912. New office, lab, and light-industrial buildings across the city can use construction verification: anchor bolts and structural steel checked to 1/8 inch from the scan, with total station check shots on any bolt group near tolerance, plus slab deviation and levelness maps.

Control is GNSS primary and Trimble S3 total station secondary, and every Trimble X9 scan is registered to that network in Trimble Business Center. We work in US survey feet and hold control to 0.01 US survey feet relative to project control. Tighter verification is available on request, and the report states the accuracy actually achieved. Deliverables are a registered, cleaned point cloud (E57, LAS, or RCP), scan-to-CAD plans, sections and elevations, 3D linework, and coded points. Because the scan holds far more than the drawing list, the dimension nobody thought to ask for during a Hacienda re-stack usually comes out of the cloud in the office instead of from another site visit. We also work in Dublin and San Ramon. See 3D laser scanning, scanning in Livermore, and our Pleasanton surveying page.